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I don't understand why you call it worse, or even bad at all.
This is evidently good.
Also good. Save money for retirement and emergencies.
Less consumerism. Good again.
Still good. More acquisitive power for consumers, less money for CEOs, stockholders, and similar parasites.
More incentive to increase production efficiency and reduce waste, while proper regulations and actually punitive fines and civil and criminal responsibility for executives, board members, and stockholders keep salaries and quality up.
The concept of infinite growth has been raping and murdering the world for way too long. This looks like it would put a hard stop to it.
So far so good?
Sounds great, to be honest!
(Though, to be fair, prices would only keep lowering until goods are sold for what they actually cost to produce, including salaries and whatnot, with occasional drops due to increased efficiencies; the system would thus stabilise at an actually reasonable level, as opposed to the current ultraconsumerist madness.)
Less demand = people getting laid off because now there's not enough work -> increase in unemployed -> fewer people paying taxes and social security stuff -> government can spend less which often leads to cuts in social security programs -> people can spend even less -> demand for products and services drops even further -> more layoffs -> cycle repeats
Think about your boss dropping your paycheck down to $200 a month (because money is so valuable now), but your rent is locked in at $1200 a month.
I already get a real pay cut every year and a real rent increase every year. When we're below the annual pay cut, we just get fired.
You need to think more communally.
Not wanting parasites to keep burning the world for short term profit is not thinking communally..?
That's obviously not what I'm referring to. I ignored the environmental stuff as I don't want to get off topic. Your points aren't invalid, but they are off topic. Try to focus please.
Back to the actual economics we're talking about. You're thinking only about the money going into your pocket. You're not thinking about the functioning of society as a whole. And you're not looking more than two inches in front of your face. The deflationary cycle is also self-perpetuating because it also involves cutting demand for not just goods, but labor. Look at the Great Depression if you want to see what a deflationary spiral looks like.
As long as we don't encourage another Wall Street crash like 1929, we should be fine.
Edit: uh oh, liberal butthurt detected
What they should have said is that a system built on specific numbers going up to generate investment hype needs those numbers to keep going up and the easiest way to have the number go up is inflation.